piratear

to pirate

to commit piracy

piratear(pee-rah-teh-ahr)

transitive verb

1. (legal)

a. to pirate

Subir el precio de los discos no es la manera de conseguir que la gente deje de piratear música.

Increasing record prices isn't the way to get people stop pirating music.

2. (computing)

a. to hack into

Un hacker pirateó los servidores de la empresa y nos robó información de los usuarios.

A hacker hacked into our company's servers and stole our users' information.

3. (to do badly)

(Venezuela)

a. to botch

Pedro pirateó su porción del proyecto y tuvo que rehacerla.

Pedro botched his part of the project and had to do it all over again.

intransitive verb

4. (nautical)

a. to commit piracy

De niño soñaba con ser pirata y piratear por las costas de los siete mares.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of being a pirate and committing piracy along the coasts of the seven seas.

piratear

intransitive verb

1. (asaltar barcos)

a. to be involved in piracy

2. (computers)

a. to hack

transitive verb

3. (propiedad intelectual)

a. to pirate

4. (computers)

a. to hack into

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piratear

transitive verb

(Aeronáutica) to hijack; [+CD, DVD, software] to pirate; (Informática) to hack into; [+libro] to plagiarize;

intransitive verb

1 [+barcos] to buccaneer; practise piracy; practice piracy; (EEUU)

2 (robar) to steal